Surendranath named 2024 Blavatnik Award Finalist
The Blavatnik Family Foundation has announced the Finalists for the World’s Largest Unrestricted Prizes to Early Career Scientists.
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences have named Donner Professor of Science Yogesh Surendranath one of their 15 finalists for the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Surendranath was selected in recognition of his developing a molecular-level understanding of how charges arrange at electrified surfaces, like battery electrodes, and new chemical reactions to decarbonize fuel and chemical synthesis.
“On behalf of the Blavatnik Family Foundation, I congratulate this year’s outstanding Laureates and Finalists for their exceptional research. They are among the preeminent leaders of the next generation of scientific innovation and discovery,”said Len Blavatnik, founder of Access Industries and the Blavatnik Family Foundation and a member of the President’s Council of The New York Academy of Sciences.
The Blavatnik National Awards are the largest unrestricted prizes for early career scientists, and honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. They celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.
Surendranath, along with his fellow Finalists and the three 2024 Laureates, will be celebrated with in a gala ceremony on October 1, 2024, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The Surendranath Lab is focused on addressing global challenges in the areas of chemical catalysis, energy storage and utilization, and environmental stewardship.
